Big Bugs on tour - swallowtail caterpillar
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Big Bugs on tour - swallowtail caterpillar by Evelyn Simak as part of the Geograph project.
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Big Bugs on tour - swallowtail caterpillar
Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 14 Sep 2019
Unfortunately they got this one rather wrong, in that it represents the caterpillar of the black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes Fabricius), also known as American swallowtail or parsnip swallowtail, which is found throughout much of North America and certainly not in the UK. For photos and information about our native common yellow swallowtail butterfly, which can now only be seen (with luck) on the Norfolk Broads, go to this https://www.butterflyidentification.com/common-yellow-swallowtail.htm
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Image Location
Latitude
52.626005
Longitude
1.289885